Type like a Ninja. I’m talking about Ninjawords, which is now my preferred quick lookup dictionary. It takes your word, finds the definition, and shows it without reloading the entire page. That’s quick, but it gets even quicker. New definition shows on top, old definitions just move down a bit. So if you’re trying more than one definition, you can see them all in the same page. When I’m writing, often I’ll search several words before deciding which one to use, so it fits like a glove.
Oh, and I found out about Ninjawords because Phil Crosby is using scrAPI against Wiktionary. It’s the perfect example for the beauty of small apps.
The S stands for Simple. Pete Lacey explains what SOAP is all about. (Spoiler: SOAP doesn’t stand for SOAP, hat tip: Tim Bray)
The Master, The Expert, The Programmer. Good read.
Can’t buy confidence. The writting was on the wall, now it’s out on the Wall Street Journal. I think Fred sums it up best: “It appears that Yahoo! likes to hedge its bets. But that means they don’t have confidence that they can make the right ones.”
Standards that work. Rob has more to say about the standards/browsers divide: “Whatever you think about mostly unimplemented standards like XForms, there’s no sensible reason for sites as huge as Amazon.com to continue to serve such sloppy mal-formed HTML except for the fact that browser makers bend over backwards to allow them to do it.”
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